It’s about time. In a tremendous legal victory for clean air and workers’ rights, a CA district judge has ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Clean Truck program. The Clean Truck program allows the Port of Los Angeles to enforce all provisions of one of the most effective diesel reduction programs in the country! [...]
Do you know what happens to your computer once you throw it out? Old electronics are dumped in “digital graveyards” in countries around the world, like China and Ghana, where all of their toxic insides are purged out into massive waste yards, polluting the land and posing grave cancer, developmental, and health threats to the [...]
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has already been deemed the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. But the spill has also earned another title: a public health disaster. As the oil continues to gush, its health hazards continue to wreak havoc on the health of Gulf residents and cleanup workers. By the [...]
As part of CEH’s continuing work on improving air quality in low income communities, CEH shares Aditi Vaidya from East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)’s post on the fight to fix the broken port trucking system: You might have read that EBASE and the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports took our fight [...]
Christine Cordero, CEH’s Coordinator of Environmental Health and Justice, has previously written about her advocacy on behalf of Clean Air and Good Jobs on our blog. Last week, Christine was invited to discuss her important work, on “YourSuperNatural Life”, a popular greenliving website and radio show. Listen to her discuss the real cost of buying [...]
You may have heard “methyl iodide” in the news over the weekend. It’s the name of the newest frighteningly toxic chemical — one that causes cancer and miscarriages — that California regulators are on the verge of approving for use on strawberry fields. Last week California Senator Dean Florez held a hearing to give the [...]
Oakland residents are among some 87 million Americans who live in port-polluted U.S. regions with disproportionately high rates of asthma, cancer, and respiratory illnesses that claim thousands of lives each year. In a previous article we told you about our work with the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports to restore stability to our Ports [...]
As we’ve blogged before, CEH as part of our Safe Air, Water and Food campaign is part of the Green Blue Alliance fighting to restore stability to our Ports system and improve air quality in low income communities. With hope that we have an ally in the White House, and stuck with a lawsuit against [...]
Though I really do crave it, that new flat-screen TV would be a guilty pleasure. I mean I’ve got a working set, and the new one would doubtlessly be made in Asia, brought here on a ship, loaded onto an 18-wheel diesel truck, carried to a major retailer’s regional distribution warehouse, unloaded, put on another [...]
Look around your house, and no doubt you will find a Samsung product. Televisions, radios, cell phones, Samsung went from the little company that could to the conglomerate that went everywhere. As we approach Worker’s Memorial Day and May Day we wish we could tell you a story how fairly Samsung treats its workers. Sadly, [...]
Right now, you can take action to make the air in our nation's port-side communities safe for children to breathe. Now is our chance to bring one of the most effective diesel reduction programs to ports across the country
Take Action today: Urge your Congress Member to Support the Clean and Safe Ports Act 0f 2010!
Right now, you can take action to help protect every American from toxic chemicals. This is simply the best opportunity we have ever had to pass tough federal reforms that will keep toxic chemicals out of our lives.
Take Action today: Urge your Congress Member to Co-Sponsor the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act 0f 2010!
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Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is still profiting from products that expose you and your children to lead. It’s time for the store to hear from you. Take Action: Click here to Urge Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke to agree to eliminate the lead threats from its purses and other accessories as other responsible companies have done.
Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to keep carcinogenic methyl iodide out of California's strawberry fields. These could be the most important clicks your mouse makes today!
Urge your Senators that GMOs must not be prioritized in our food aid policies. These could be the most important clicks your mouse makes today!
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